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GAZA-Israel and Hamas vowed to keep fighting on Sunday, ignoring international calls to stop the Gaza conflict which entered a 16th day with heavy clashes between Israeli troops and Palestinian guerrillas.Hamas's leader in exile, Khaled Meshaal, said his Islamist group would not consider a truce until Israel ended its military offensive and lifted a blockade of the Gaza Strip.Israel sent tanks deeper into the Hamas-ruled coastal enclave and threatened to intensify its air and ground assaults against militants who fired more rockets into the Jewish state.Palestinian witnesses reported heavy fighting east of the city of Gaza where Hamas militants fired anti-tank missiles and mortar bombs at advancing Israeli forces who responded with tank shells and air strikes. Southwest of the city, soldiers killed 10 gunmen, Palestinian medical workers said.Israeli air strikes killed three militants, medical workers said. At least one of the dead was identified as a Hamas gunman.Tank fire killed a woman in Nusseirat, central Gaza, medical officials said. Israeli shelling of two villages in south Gaza killed a woman and set 15 houses on fire, witnesses said. Some 50 people suffered from burns and gas inhalation, they said.Though cross-border Palestinian salvoes have diminished, two rockets on Sunday struck Beersheba, 42 km (26 miles) inside Israel, the military said. There were no casualties or damage...
By Nidal al-Mughrabi
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